Poor Indian Grass is an annual grass, 10-15 cm tall,
slender, clustered. Leaves are 3-5 x 0.15-0.2 cm, minutely hairy on
nerves above, hairless below. Spikes are 5-9 cm long, slender, lax.
Spikelets 2.5-2.7 cm long (including awn); lower glumes about 0.25 cm
long, oblong, hyaline, 1-nerved, tip with a short sharp point; upper
glumes elliptic, about 0.3 cm long, hyaline, keeled, with a short sharp
point. Poor Indian Grass is endemic to Western Ghats.
Identification credit: Shahid Landge
Photographed in Ramghat, Maharashtra.
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